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With Marie Curie promoting short-term volunteering, we ask people in the North East if they give their time to any charities, and what makes it more difficult.

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00:00Time is the biggest thing, just with work constraints and obviously having kids and it's just difficult to find time to do anything to be honest with you.
00:09A lot of the time is just taking up working so you can spend some time with the kids at the weekend, really. That's great.
00:14I think I would feel it would be something that more people should do, I think, but it's like I said before, it's more about how much, like how little, how much time you can give.
00:28And just giving up even a few hours of your time to them because it's the thought that counts.
00:36I think, yeah, like things like events, like I know some affairs, at least where I volunteer, get a lot more people because it feels like a one off event instead of like, oh, I'll do this Saturday.
00:46Then like never again. So, yeah, I think like having more boundaries of like when people do it and being able, like allowing them to say it early on.
00:54Like, I just want to do this. I think we've definitely probably increased people to do it. Yeah.
01:00All right.
01:01So...
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